Openable can end with surprising opening portion
AssigneeSchmalbach-Lubeca AG
InventorsLutz Strube, Richard Reichinger
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Abstract
An openable can end for a beverage can of usual type, having a first tear-out portion which seems to be openable, when a lever-type tab is operated. A second tear-out portion is also provided beside or outside the first portion, wherein the second tear-out portion tears out (or breaks in) instead of the expected first tear-out portion. Thus, it is possible to surprise the user upon opening such a beverage can, without impairing the simple and reliable opening of the beverage can.
Claims18
Openable can end made of sheet material for beverage cans, comprising a central panel, a first area comprising beads or ribs and visually appearing as a tear-out portion for opening a segment of limited size of the can end, and a lever-type tab which tab is mounted close to said first area on the central panel, said first area not capable of being opened by operation of said lever-type tab;
- a second area comprising a real tearable score line defining an opening segment of limited size, said second area being located outside said first area and being at least partially concealed, said opening segment being openable by operation of said lever-type tab.
Openable can end for a beverage can comprising a central panel and a lever type tab attached to said panel, and having:
- (a) a first portion having at most an incomplete score line, said first portion not capable of being opened by operation of said lever-type tab;
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- (b) a second portion located beside or outside said first portion, said second portion having a segment openable by operation of said lever-type tab, wherein said segment opens unexpectedly by operation of said lever type tab instead of the first portion, as expected.
Openable can end made of sheet material for beverage cans, having a lever-type tab and a central panel provided with two spaced apart independent portions, one of said independent portions having a complete score line, the other of said independent portions having at most an incomplete score line, the portion having a complete score line being openable by operation of said lever-type tab, only one of which is openable by the tab tearing and then is continuously tearable further along the complete score line whereby initial sections of said two score lines, one of which is provided to initially break in by the action of the tab and the other one of which is adapted not to initially break in by the action of the tab, are covered by said tab.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.